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Documentation: A...B shortcut for checkout and rebase

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Describe the A...B shortcuts for checkout and rebase [-i] which were
introduced in these commits:

619a64e ("checkout A...B" switches to the merge base between A and B, 2009-10-18)
61dfa1b ("rebase --onto A...B" replays history on the merge base between A and B, 2009-11-20)
230a456 (rebase -i: teach --onto A...B syntax, 2010-01-07)

Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Michael J Gruber 2010-06-01 17:16:42 +02:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
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Documentation/git-checkout.txt
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@ -136,6 +136,10 @@ edits from your current working tree.
As a special case, the `"@\{-N\}"` syntax for the N-th last branch
checks out the branch (instead of detaching). You may also specify
`-` which is synonymous with `"@\{-1\}"`.
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As a further special case, you may use `"A...B"` as a shortcut for the
merge base of `A` and `B` if there is exactly one merge base. You can
leave out at most one of `A` and `B`, in which case it defaults to `HEAD`.
<new_branch>::
Name for the new branch.

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Documentation/git-rebase.txt
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@ -206,6 +206,10 @@ OPTIONS
--onto option is not specified, the starting point is
<upstream>. May be any valid commit, and not just an
existing branch name.
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As a special case, you may use "A...B" as a shortcut for the
merge base of A and B if there is exactly one merge base. You can
leave out at most one of A and B, in which case it defaults to HEAD.
<upstream>::
Upstream branch to compare against. May be any valid commit,